Sankt Gallen-based VC firm b2venture has announced the closing of its Fund V at €150 million, reaching the hard cap and making it the firm’s largest early-stage fund to date.
- Founded in 2000, b2venture is a European venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups with scalable and defensible technologies. Following an industry-agnostic strategy, the firm focuses on sectors such as AI, robotics, fintech, healthcare, and industrial technology, typically backing around 35 startups per fund.
- Its portfolio includes notable companies like DeepL, SumUp, Raisin, 1KOMMA5°, Edurino, Procuros, and Seven Senders, and it has participated in over 11 IPOs and more than 30 trade sales.
- With the newly closed Fund V at €150 million, b2venture plans to continue supporting early-stage European startups, with initial investments already made in Nautica Technologies, Hive Robotics, Augmented Industries, and Assemblean.
"With Fund V, we are strengthening this model to support the next generation of European tech champions with true domain knowledge, not just capital," claims Jan-Hendrik Bürk, Partner at b2venture.
- The fund is backed by a mix of long-standing and new limited partners, including family offices, institutional investors like Flexstone and Stiftung Abendrot, high-net-worth individuals, and over 350 angel investors such as Thomas Hagemann and Joachim Schoss, combining capital and expertise to support the next generation of European tech leaders.
